The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-04-11
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

The new London directory con-
tains the names of Ups Smiths.
The leading dentist in St. Peters
burg is an American, who has all the
pulling and filling he can attend to-.
"A man in Brussels has been ar
rested for cutting and slashing
women's coats and wraps in the streets
''for fun
The walls of Antioch, alternately
besieged and defended by the Crusa-
ders, are being demolished for building
materials.
The piano cases made of paper by
the Germans are creamy-white, and
are said to improve the tone in
quality, though diminishing its volume.
"A Berlin bareback rider has
eclipsed all circus performers by jump
ing from one horse to another as they
go in opposite directions at full speed.
The Russian Government has de-
cided to prohibit the importation of
patent medicines; the published list of
prohibited articles contains eight hun
dred items
Birds of prey fly so swiftly and for
such a length of time that falcon,
once lost in the forest of Fontainebleau,
in the center of France, was found the
following day at Malta, more than
thousand miles distant.
In Algeria the bride always rides to
the wedding on a mule led by the bride
groom. The wedding occurs at his
home, and on reaching the door he lifts
the girl from the mule and carries her
inside, the assembled damsels and
youths meantime pelting him and
switching him with olive branches.
Sir Andrew Clarke, the celebrated
English physician, declares that one
half the population of London, is per-
manently i'll. He defines health as
that state in which the body is not
consciously present to us; the state in
which work is easy and duty not over
great a trial; the state in which it is a
JOY to see, to think, to feel and to be"
The greatest part of the cultivated |
area of China is devoted to the pro-
duction of food. There are no fiocks |
or herds, and the areas devoted to cot
ton and mulberry are very small COM
pared to the extent of the empire. Of |
the 250,000,000 of population. three
fifths live on rice apd the rest on small
millet and wheat.
1t is well known that the popula-
ton of London is a migratory one, but
probably few persons were prepared
TOR the fact which has been brought to
light by the compilers of Kellys Post
DffiOQ niractOT.u bo L. !
London amount to one in ten annually.
Thus the entire population of London
changes houses every ten yearS.-LoQ-
ION Truth.
The great Glasgow cathedral was
lighted throughout with gas for the
irst time, and the effect is said to have
'een exceedingly fine, as the brilliant
light fully reveals all the interior beau
les of the building, which have hither-
o been concealed; while from the out
ide nothing can be finer than the
lew of the long line of stained-glass
"A drainage scheme of considerable
Magnitude is being carried out in Rus
ia. The object is the reclamation of the
insk marshes, situated on the Russo
dish frontier, and the work has been
l operation since 1873. The total
rea of the district is %, 900, 900 acres,
nd of this some 5000, 900 acres have
cen reclaimed up to the present time
yer 1000 miles of bitches and canals /;
ave been constructed in the course of I
lie work. The operations have been 4
lrried out under the government. s
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